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Área de identidad
Código de referencia
AMW-18694
Título
Alen MacWeeney Collection
Fecha(s)
- 1965 - 1971 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Colección
Volumen y soporte
78 audio recordings
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
Alen MacWeeney is a Dublin-born photographer. He began his career in Paris at the age of twenty, as Richard Avedon’s assistant. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, including The New Yorker and LIFE magazine and his photographs are in the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the George Eastman House, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and others. As well as taking photographic portraits of the Irish travelling community he also recorded their music, songs and stories.
Institución archivística
Historia archivística
Reel-to-reel tapes were loaned to ITMA for copying by Alen McWeeney in 1997. The reel-to-reels were digitised to CD-R at an unknown date, which were transferred to Broadcast WAV files by Memnon Archiving Services, Brussels in 2019
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Alen MacWeeney
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
This collection focuses primarily on music and song from the Irish Traveller community recorded around County Dublin between 1965 and 1971. Materials in this collection include reel-to-reel tapes, 1 commercial LP, and notes about recordings in two jotter notebooks and loose-leaf paper.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
110 reel-to-reel tapes were loaned to ITMA for copying. Only 77 were deemed of relevance to the archive and were accessioned in 1997.
Acumulaciones
The collection was donated in two different accessions, the first in 1998 and the second in 2002. Those accessions contained the following:
6 May 1998: Two 10.5-inch reel-to-reel tapes
25 February 2002: 115 reel-to-reel tapes; 5 10-inch tapes; 3 7-inch tapes; 107 5-inch tapes; two LPs (test pressing The Travelling People of Ireland), two jotters containing tape notes.
Sistema de arreglo
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Users may not have access to original recordings, but may access digital surrogate onsite at ITMA, 73 Merrion Square.
Condiciones
In copyright
Idioma del material
- inglés
- irlandés
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
Instrumentos de descripción
Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
Existencia y localización de copias
Unidades de descripción relacionadas
Área de notas
Identificador/es alternativo(os)
Puntos de acceso
Puntos de acceso por materia
Puntos de acceso por lugar
Puntos de acceso por autoridad
Tipo de puntos de acceso
Área de control de la descripción
Identificador de la descripción
Identificador de la institución
IE ITMA
Reglas y/o convenciones usadas
ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description. 2 nd ed. Ottawa: International Council on Archives, 2000.
Irish Guidelines for Archival Description. Ireland: Society of Archivists, 2009
Anglo-American cataloguing rules. 2nd ed., 1988 revision. Ottawa : Chicago: Canadian Library Association.
Irish Guidelines for Archival Description. Ireland: Society of Archivists, 2009
Anglo-American cataloguing rules. 2nd ed., 1988 revision. Ottawa : Chicago: Canadian Library Association.
Estado de elaboración
Nivel de detalle
Parcial
Fechas de creación revisión eliminación
Idioma(s)
- inglés
Escritura(s)
Fuentes
Alen MacWeeney website, 'Bio', https://www.alenmacweeney.com/about/bio (accessed 25 July 2019)
Nota del archivista
Collection-level description compiled by Fionnuala Parfrey